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Energy policy: Push renewables to spur carbon pricing

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  • Gernot Wagner

    (Gernot Wagner is lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and adjunct associate professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University, New York, USA.)

  • Tomas Kåberger

    (Tomas Kåberger is professor of industrial energy policy at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.)

  • Susanna Olai

    (Susanna Olai is an environmental economist at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.)

  • Michael Oppenheimer

    (Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.)

  • Katherine Rittenhouse

    (Katherine Rittenhouse is an economic analyst at the Environmental Defense Fund in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.)

  • Thomas Sterner

Abstract

Make wind and solar power even cheaper by opening up access to the electricity grid and ending fossil-fuel subsidies, urge Gernot Wagner and colleagues.

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  • Gernot Wagner & Tomas Kåberger & Susanna Olai & Michael Oppenheimer & Katherine Rittenhouse & Thomas Sterner, 2015. "Energy policy: Push renewables to spur carbon pricing," Nature, Nature, vol. 525(7567), pages 27-29, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:525:y:2015:i:7567:d:10.1038_525027a
    DOI: 10.1038/525027a
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    1. Kent D. Daniel & Robert B. Litterman & Gernot Wagner, 2016. "Applying Asset Pricing Theory to Calibrate the Price of Climate Risk," NBER Working Papers 22795, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Moreno-Cruz, Juan B. & Wagner, Gernot & Keith, David w., 2017. "An Economic Anatomy of Optimal Climate Policy," Working Paper Series rwp17-028, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government.
    3. Tvinnereim, Endre & Mehling, Michael, 2018. "Carbon pricing and deep decarbonisation," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 121(C), pages 185-189.
    4. Jessica F. Green, 2021. "Beyond Carbon Pricing: Tax Reform is Climate Policy," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 12(3), pages 372-379, May.
    5. Thomas Sterner, 2015. "Beyond IPCC, Research for Paris 2015 and Beyond," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 62(2), pages 207-215, October.
    6. Adam Michael Bauer & Cristian Proistosescu & Gernot Wagner, 2023. "Carbon Dioxide as a Risky Asset," CESifo Working Paper Series 10278, CESifo.
    7. Jurate Jaraite & Amin Karimu & Andrius Kazukauskas, 2017. "Policy-Induced Expansion of Solar and Wind Power Capacity: Economic Growth and Employment in EU Countries," The Energy Journal, International Association for Energy Economics, vol. 0(Number 5).
    8. Torben K. Mideksa, 2021. "Leadership and Climate Policy," CESifo Working Paper Series 9054, CESifo.
    9. Chang-Jing Ji & Xiao-Yi Li & Yu-Jie Hu & Xiang-Yu Wang & Bao-Jun Tang, 2019. "Research on carbon price in emissions trading scheme: a bibliometric analysis," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 99(3), pages 1381-1396, December.
    10. Chang-Jing Ji & Yu-Jie Hu & Bao-Jun Tang, 2018. "Research on carbon market price mechanism and influencing factors: a literature review," Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, Springer;International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, vol. 92(2), pages 761-782, June.
    11. Karl W. Steininger & Wolf D. Grossmann & Iris Grossmann, 2016. "The economic value of dispatchable solar electricity: a Post-Paris evaluation," Graz Economics Papers 2016-10, University of Graz, Department of Economics.
    12. Adrien Fabre & Gernot Wagner, 2020. "Availability of risky geoengineering can make an ambitious climate mitigation agreement more likely," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 7(1), pages 1-4, December.
    13. Richard B. Stewart & Michael Oppenheimer & Bryce Rudyk, 2017. "Building blocks: a strategy for near-term action within the new global climate framework," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 144(1), pages 1-13, September.
    14. Rundong Luo & Yan Li & Zhicheng Wang & Mengjiao Sun, 2022. "Co-Movement between Carbon Prices and Energy Prices in Time and Frequency Domains: A Wavelet-Based Analysis for Beijing Carbon Emission Trading System," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(9), pages 1-15, April.

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